. >> you have senior republicansñr like paul ryan saying it's not their intention to raise tax rates. they don't want to agree to hold tax hikes now to spending cuts they don't think will materialize. how are you going to work with reasons in the house if they are going to carry on saying, listen, this is not something we're negotiating on as they have for the last two years. you have to deal with; right? >> you do, but there's began change there. speaker bane put out the -- speaker boehner is willing to talk, and that's what negotiations are about. i just look at these, the clinton-bush tax cut issues and where you put the rates as a major part of the solution. when you look at the amount of the money you can bring in, and you add that into some of the deductions, but that is a big chunk of change. >> in the press conference, the president left flex the between them. >> they did cross their blackberries, so, you know, clearly, it is showing flexibility which is important. >> this is going to be a congress in which you think we are going, by the end of the year, sorted out the fiscal